Sparkling Holidays

 Today is the day we say goodbye to the Two Paper Diva's online store. Where the owners will be enjoying their retirement ( tomorrow)
(YAY! I am so excited for you both and hope you will enjoy it so much!)

 So, I wanted to leave you with one more simple Christmas card. This one uses the (sold out) bottle brush tree, a sentiment from the yes to sprinkles set and the star is from the branching out set. I did use my Misti stamping tool to do the sentiment twice on this and also the tree's branches which I had scribbled some Mint Melody & Mint Macron markers on (twice) randomly.

The trunk and base were stamped with some baked brown sugar marker, the sentiment is Versafine lagoon and the star is Versafine Toffee ( which looks gold to my eye) so, I colored in the star with a stardream gellyroll pen and then I added the garland drawing dots with a white gel pen. which totally faded into the branches, so I traced around the edges of my hand drawn pop corn with that same stardream pen and it had a small amount of glimmer, but what made it POP was adding the gold glitter gel pen around the outside of the clear stardream glitter. So, it morphed from "popcorn" into a garland. The frame was cut from some pale green textured DCWV cardstock with an ODBD stitched rectangle die, the gold mirror is from Bazzill and the base is some very pale aqua Stardream shimmery cardstock. and this one is A-2 in real life.
Today is also the last day to pick up anything left on your wishlist in the online store at 50% off. The blog / idea gallery will remain open for inspiration. Thanks for stopping by. 

WOYWW # 393 Christmas

Happy Desk Peeking day :) If you would like to play along with us the link up starts here at Miss Julia's blog.

 So, as it happens we are remodeling our house (the livingroom, & eat in kitchen which is really mostly one big room.) and so, as far as decorating for Christmas goes the little trees and fern I found last week that are up in the hobby room on the coffee table are it. ( so far) but, I have started wrapping, which will probably lead to more decorating (up here) soon.
and its funny that I settled on a blue and minty greens color combo for this pack I tend to lean more traditional Christmas colors more than pale winter-y ones. This is a peek of the wrapping session that started monday and continued through tuesday and as I was doing this I really loved the colors more and more so,

 a closer look at some of the tags. the wrapping paper is tissue or kraft paper in a pale green. with dies from Memory box, Sizzix, Taylored Expressions, Spellbinders, ect. stamps from Justrite, Hero Arts, Concord & 9th, Impression Obsession, and it lead me to creating these cards below because, I had gotten out the Concord & 9th O Christmas Tree set and pretty much continued these colors.

These used the stamps from the Concord & 9th set with a SU gently falling ( snow embossing folder) and some Micheal's lace and the mint color cardstock is from SU also. the trees were stamped with both mint melody & mint macron markers so the colors had some flux to them. They are all A-2 in real life, and if you peek closely you can see in the top right corner one of the Two Paper Diva's bottle brush trees peeking out as a vertical variation on the theme. and the funny true story is these are my most favorite cards I made for Christmas so far this year. I spent hours after this last night stamping sentiments in all the cards being hauled to the PO today and will wait in line for them because, I did guess on the postage of the one of a kind lumpy ones going out.

So this was a dozen cards total. I did not line the insides but, I did for the first time ever stamp sentiments in every one of mine going out this year from the Altenew Holiday Wishes set.

Simple Christmas

I dont know about you but, when I want to make a stack of cards ( not often) I really don't want to color a complicated image over and over so, I tend to reach for stamps that can just be inked and done. In this case the Sentiments ( Simon Says Stamp) were heat embossed with WOW gold powder ( twice) so, they really have some depth and pop to them. and then the Prickley Pear poinsettias were heat embossed in some sparkly Ranger enchanted gold powder ( this is half glitter and some of it rubs off like a distressed look or maybe its these blooms) but, after the red sprays, stains and shimmers were added it gave the blooms a ghost effect.

Each of those panels warped badly and I had them under a pile of dies on the desk for a while trying to flatten them out so, I ended up die cutting them down smaller with a Stitched rectangle die and then using foam tape to pop them up over the gold mirror layers. These finished out at A-6 in real life. and should be one stamp cards to mail. ( which is huge for me as most of mine cost me a couple dollars each card to mail in the end) I did use my Misti stamping tool to do them all the same ( the double embossed especially went very quickly because of it.

Negotiations

I have always been the kind of person who mixes what ever ( stamps, paper lines, embellishments) It doesn't matter if its in my room I have it because I want to play with it. and so, now that we are in the final week of the Two Paper Diva's online store being open I decided to share this one because, it is very much a Me project. This is one of the cards I put together on Monday for the lady who needed something funny for Christmas and she did choose this one. The stocking is from the Holiday Greetings set and it really is my favorite image in that set. the shape of the stocking is just fun to me, this version was water colored with some pencil over the top. The circle was pressed with a Sizzix basic grey folder and the sentiment is from the ranger dylusions line. the printed paper is from a Bo Bunny pad with lots of little vintage Santa images and the card finished out at 6" square in real life. that ribbon is unknown. I did use a teeny recollections gold brad to "hang" this stocking with, the cord is tucked around the prongs of the brad and taped to the backside of the stocking.
 There are just 6 days left to take advantage of the 50% off remaining inventory sale.

WOYWW # 392

Happy Wednesday Peeps, if you'd like to play along with us the link up starts here at Miss Julia's blog.

 So, I am not so sure I have ever shown this from this far out of the view of the row of tables and carts. This metal rolling cart was a yard sale find (years ago) and it just has piles on it, and normally the embossing folders ( multiple baskets) were covered up with an old towel (dust catchers) and then there would be you know 2 or 3 inches of either new cardstock purchases not put away or recent (big) scraps again not put away on top of that towel so, I would have to pick it all up and move it across the room to access the folders. ( so, I hardly ever use mine) and on Black Friday I did go into Micheal's because, hubs had to go to the sporting goods store in the same shopping center.., and I came home with that long skinny metal basket ( and a second smaller one two shots down) and I seriously cleaned for reals this time since the last time you stopped by...

 This is still the small scraps pile but, it also holds that plastic su box of stamped sentiments not die cut, and some work in progress. this wooden tray was a yard sale find years ago and used to sit front and center on the table with pockets of die cut sentiments and colored images in it. I am still making personal for me to give away Christmas cards, I don't mind the last minute-ness of it because, you know its not a rush thing. and Its only 13 degrees out side right now so, its easier to stay in and make snow covered things at this time of the year mentally I guess. That tree die is a recent Simon Says Stamp black friday happy mail that arrived.

 but, in its old place is the new smaller metal basket with ( more pockets of stuff and work in progress) those are inside of those Sizzix plastic envelopes dies come in. ( I move my dies to magnet sheets and the generic Amazon version plastic pockets. so they are all the same)

Off to the left some of the black friday online shopping has started to arrive. I have loved these teeny tiny stamps from Hero Arts since the first time I seen them and I thought, no you really don't need them... but, I caved as you can see and got them all at once. and the hearts that they were donating sales funds from to the charity that are not in the stores yet. I did end up playing with these right after I shot this photo so, the table this morning actually looks like this...

another recent happy mail thing is this pad of grid paper on the cutting pad, so far that is working really nice to not have to dig for a scrap to stamp off on and the cushion factor has made a difference too.
Thanks for stopping by, I will be mostly making the rounds from work as we are working on the house on the weekends.

Excitement

 So, one of the very first things June said to me this morning at work is, (your best customer who drives from out of town 30 miles to buy my cards called) and she will be here tomorrow for Humorous Christmas cards. so, I said what ever was left from the booth is already here. and I asked how many funny ones do you have? and she said I dunno I told her you would bring in what you had at home...
there were none at work, there are none at home. the good news is there are things already stamped and tons of printed papers.and I had a short day at work and could come home in the daylight.
So this one that sentiment is from Taylored Expressions, I added some red pen to the open letters and tied it onto the satin bow looking for a wrapped gift look.

The chevron print is covered with glitter ( My Minds Eye) the ribbon is unknown and the cord is May Arts. I actually ended up making a dozen cards will post some more of them later when the mug shots are processed.

And before all that happened on the hunt for a live potted small tree for upstairs sans glitter I happened across these in the floral dept. at Fred Meyers this morning on the way to work, the tall one on the left is a Lemon Cypress and the one on the right is a shaped Rosemary and the tiny one in the front is a Christmas Fern. ( these smell so good) they are on the coffee table in the hobby room tonight. not decorated yet. but, still fun to smell and see.